This element gave rise to the centrum in amniotes. At anterior end, below the notochord, is the intercentrum. Ichthyostegids (labyrinthodont amphibians) had vertebrae nearly identical with ...
Skin attachment - Teeth are anchored to the skin by collagen fibers that run into the dentine from the dermis (in sharks). Each tooth touches the bone with the outer surface of the root, may be joined ...
The spine (aka backbone) is a linked column of bones running from the head down to the lower back. Bone segments form the column. One bone segment is a vertebra, and multiple bone segments are ...
The research was conducted by a team at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Using dark-field imaging on human cadaveric vertebrae, the team identified correlations between dark-field ...